- Open Photoshop
- Go to Windows—>Workspace—>Motion
- Open your file
- Go to Export—>Render Video
- Format should be set to ‘Quicktime’
- Preset should be ‘Best Quality Animation’
- Render Options should be ‘Straight- Unmatted’
- Go to File—>Import—>Video Frames to Layers
- This window should pop up
- Click on ‘Selected Range Only’
- Move the markers to the portion that you want to use
- Press ‘OK’
- Go to Window—>Animation (if animation isn’t there, then click on ‘Timeline’)
- Your screen should look similar to this
- Your clip has been separated into different layers that correspond with the frames of the animation
- Click on ‘Frame 1’ and press the space bar to watch the clip
- Press the space bar again to stop the clip
- Find the points in the clip that you want to be moving
- For mine, I only want frames 1-47
- I am going to click on frame 48 and hold my shift key down
- I am going to click on frame 65
- Frames 48-65 are now highlighted in blue
- Find the trash icon
- Click on the trash
- Press ‘Yes’
- Go to your layers panel
- Click on frame 48
- Press your shift key
- Click on frame 65
- Locate the trash icon on the bottom right of the layers panel
- Click on the trash icon
- Press ‘Yes’
- Find the frame that you want to become the still (or static) part of the clip
- I am using frame 25
- I clicked on ‘Layer 25’ in the layers panel
- Press ‘Command J’ to duplicate the layer
- By default, it will name the new layer ‘Layer 25 copy’
- Click and hold the new layer and drag it to the top of the layers panel
- Double click on the ‘Layer 25 copy’ layer
- Rename it ‘Static’
- Click on your ‘Static’ layer
- Add a layer mask to your ‘Static’ layer
- Your layers panel should look like this:
- Select the Brush Tool (B)
- Make sure that the foreground color is black. If you press ‘X’ on your keyboard it will set it to either black or white. Press ‘X’ to switch it.
- Click on the layer mask of the ‘Static’ layer
(make sure there is a rectangle around the mask and not the layer thumbnail)
- Use the Brush Tool (B) to ‘erase’ the part that you want to move
- If it doesn’t look like anything is disappearing, check your layers panel to see if any layers are visible. The only layer that should be visible is the ‘Static’ layer.
- If you accidentally erase too much, you can change the foreground color to white (press x on the keyboard) to bring back a part of the image.
- You should spend a lot of time making sure everything is meticulously erased
- Once you are satisfied with your selection, find the frame on the Timeline (Animation window)
- Select it and drag it to the trash
- Press the spacebar to test your movie
- On the Animation window, click the three lines under the ‘x’
- Select ‘Optimize Animation’
- Press ‘OK
- Add adjustment layers! Give it cool effects!!!
- Make sure to save your file as a .psd!!!!
- You also need to save it in a different format so we can post it to the web
- Go to File—>Save for Web
- Click on the ‘4-Up’ option to see the different dither and color options. You can zoom in on certain parts.
- Select the one that seems the clearest
- Press save
- Post it to your ‘Story’ page on the blog
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